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“I hope that people who stop and watch One-on-One learn something and leave our show changed. I hope it stays with them and impacts how they see the world around them, this changing America.” - María Hinojosa

María Hinojosa is an award-winning journalist and author. In addition to hosting One-on-One, Hinojosa is the managing editor and host of public radio’s Latino USA. Fomerly, she was a senior correspondent for the PBS newsmagazine program NOW.

María Hinojosa: One-on-One is produced by La Plaza, WGBH Boston’s award-winning production unit. The series is available to public broadcasters through American Public Television’s Exchange service. Please check your local listings.

It started as a small group of dedicated protesters – Occupy Wall Street was dismissed as a fringe movement. But their message is starting to grab attention with similar protests planned around the country. Demonstrators say they are the 99 percent, but do the protests reflect the diversity of America? Are voices of color also being heard? To answer this question, Maria Hinojosa hosts a round table debate with Colorlines.com editor Kai Wright, artist Melanie Cervantes, and musician Martin Perna.

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She never went to college and she didn’t begin her career until she was 37, but today Diane Rehm is one of the most respected public radio hosts of all time.

Noted historian Nell Irvin Painter is a professor emerita at Princeton and the author of numerous books, including Sojouner Truth, A Life, A Symbol; Standing at Armageddon; and Southern History Across the Color Line.

Her latest book, The History of White People, was featured on The Colbert Report and received rave reviews in the US and England. In this conversation with María Hinojosa, Painter explains what drives her, how the idea of beauty has changed in America, and why she doesn’t believe race exists.

Maria on her interviwe with Nell Painter:

"I am most in awe not of celebrity but of intellect. And what a mind Nell Painter has. Her curiosity about the human race and how it functions means she looks at things through a fascinating prism. The History of White People, her most famous book turns things upside down and therefore, the ideas stay with you. On a personal level, I love that this accomplished Princeton professor has become an art student in her older years. Her desire to confront her own creativity is fearless and inspiring."